Viva la Raza! Lucha Weekly for 6/28/15

Bengala Headed to JapanThis week Pro Wrestling NOAH announced the roster for their upcoming Global Junior League which focuses on Junior Heavyweight stars. AAA’s Bengala was announced as competing in the tournament. Bengala wrestled for years in NOAH as Ricky Marvin before returning to his home country of Mexico to dawn the Bengala mask for AAA. This will be his first appearance in NOAH or Japan since he left NOAH last year and the first time he will appear in NOAH as Bengala. Super Crazy is also a part of the tournament as well as El Desperado, who worked in CMLL for quite some time as Namajague. The full roster of stars appearing is below. The tournament will take place from July 18th through the beginning of August. – Yoshinari Ogawa – Taiji Ishimori – Atsushi Kotoge – Daisuke Harada – Genba Hirayanagi – Kenoh – Hitoshi Kumano – Super Crazy – Zack Sabre Jr.– El Desperado – Taka Michinoku – Sho Tanaka – Bengala

Hernandez Returns to TNAIt looks as if Lucha Underground star Hernandez has left the promotion and re-joined TNA. Hernandez has been a focal point of Lucha Underground for weeks but this past week he returned to TNA and joined with MVP’s Beat Down Clan group. The Wrestling Observer reports that Hernandez has been released from his deal with Lucha Underground though he will still appear on remaining episodes of Lucha Underground for season one (which have already been taped).

Big Hair vs. Hair Match AnnouncedThis past week CMLL announced a big Hair vs. Hair Match between Rey Escorpion and Ultimo Guerrero will take place on 07/17. Guerrero was Escorpion’s mentor for years giving Escorpion is first taste of success in the 2011 Torneo Gran Alternativa which they won. Later Escorpion joined Guerrero’s Guerreros del Infierno group. Escorpion was kicked out of the group back in 2012 and has had an off and on feud with Guerrero ever since. This will be a culmination between two long rivals and former partners, and should be one of Guerrero’s best matches in quite some time as his best matches in recent years have been those that he faced Escorpion in.

En Busca de un Idolo StandingsThe standings for the En Busca de un Idolo Tournament after this week are below. Bobby Zavala, Guerrero Maya Jr., Flyer, & Canelo Casas are currently in the top four right now. The most interesting thing involving this tournament actually happened out of the ring this week though. During a press conference that CMLL held hyping up the tournament and featuring all of the participants and judges. The only person that stood out was Disturbio who went on a huge rant about the judges and the tournament. He ripped Shocker to pieces and said that judges made no sense saying that they are also pushing the luchadors to wrestle more on the mat while the fans want to see them have more exciting matches. He also destroyed the voting system in which sometimes votes aren’t even counted. Everything he said has been said by fans over and over so it resonated with a lot of people. 1) Bobby Zavala: 283 points 2) Guerrero Maya Jr.: 236 points 3) Flyer: 181 points 4) Canelo Casas: 177 points 5) Esfinge: 164 points 6) Disturbio: 158 points 7) Blue Panther Jr: 156 points 8) Delta: 130 points

Tigre Uno Wins X-Division ChampionshipThis past week on Impact TNA’s Tigre Uno, formerly Extreme Tiger in AAA, won the X-Division Championship in a Triple Threat that also featured Low-Ki and Grado. Tigre pinned Ki in the end to win his first X-Division Championship. His fortune may have changed the next night though as he appeared to be injured at the end of his first title defense. It is unclear how serious the injury is at this point.